Trans Lives Matter On and Off Stage

Published: Dec. 5, 2017, 10:46 p.m.

Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon are joined by Dane Edidi, a Black, Cuban, Indigenous, Nigerian trans woman Performance Artist, Playwright, Advocate and Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, an award-winning, queer theater artist and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. Deen’s one man show DRAW THE CIRCLE is currently running at Mosaic Theater Company of Washington D.C. through December 24th. The group talks about trans visibility, the politics of representation in theater and pop culture, the importance of intersectionality in movement work, the nuances to the current moment around sexual assault revelations, and the need to rethink how we educate young white boys.